Interactive Literacy
What does it mean to be truly literate with new media? Certainly, it means more than the ability to send…
How a Community Map Improves the Beanstockd Game
Last week, we spoke at length with 42 Entertainment founder Elan Lee, who managed to break down in 10 minutes…
Africa News Empowers Citizens to Report Online
Over the past couple of months I have been following a new African news portal, Africa News, the latest in…
Student Innovation Team Explores Needs of Young Adults
The Crunchberry Project — the innovation class that includes the first two Knight News Challenge programmer-journalists — is moving forward…
The IncluderEpisode 4Phone + USB = Brilliant
Ricardo submitted a brilliant idea for Google’s 10 to the 100th competition. The idea is to get mobile phone manufacturers…
Tokyo Game Show 2008
Location: Tokyo, Japan The world’s largest videogame trade show includes gaming hardware developers as well as as the latest in…
Can the Internet have a heart?
I attended a conference on “Online Giving Marketplaces” at Stanford University this past week, which was a great gathering of…
Gannett Pushes for More Tech Hires, Data Centers, Niche Sites
These are dark days for newspaper companies in the U.S. There are layoffs in print newsrooms, classified ad revenues are…
Welcome to the Redesigned, Revamped MediaShift
After months of planning and hard work behind the scenes, we are proud to launch a new revamped MediaShift website…
Finding Political Sleazemongers
I have invited researchers at MIT’s Center for Future Civic Media to participate in an effort to blow the whistle…